Noticed she wasn't internally pipping. I saw her moving but only in the bottom of the dip.. Thought to myself.. "hmmmm... I have a bad feeling about this one." I made a hole and saw that she had NOT internally pipped, worked my way down the side of her shell looking for her beak and have finally found it. Here is a pic. I did the best I could trying to follow her anatomy to find her head and not compromise the shell.
She was completely upside down. The movement I saw was her foot pushing on the air cell. She is covered in a thick goo like substance. Here's a pic of that.
What is that stuff? It's a thick fluid. The last goose I hatched looked like this and it ended badly.
This is day 28 and right now she is doing some labored breathing.. but she did honk at me when I found her beak.
Mohillbilly, QJ's goose is upside down. Those babies often need to be internally pipped to hatch. I am diving into my 5 cayuga eggs at start of day 26. I guarantee you if I did not touch them, they would all be dead in the morning. Now they have a shot, even if slim for a couple of them.
Mohillbilly, QJ's goose is upside down. Those babies often need to be internally pipped to hatch. I am diving into my 5 cayuga eggs at start of day 26. I guarantee you if I did not touch them, they would all be dead in the morning. Now they have a shot, even if slim for a couple of them.
All sebbies are well, and in the right position. One was even turned and activily working on pipping at the top. They all talked to me, and are shell open, but not membrane open, beyond opening a very tiny area for beaks.
Did have to open shell parts (where it didn't touch membrane) to reach in and be sure i only opened above the beaks. Fortunately this time, everyone was not transverse.
I took pics of the boxes before opening, and then pics with top stuffing removed to show packaging. Will post later after unwrapping and candling. But all were very well done.
What I did not expect was my sweet buff dewlap egg lady sent me 6 greys and 4 buffs when I only paid for 4 greys!! Also got a bonus egg from the other grey dewlap seller... So total eggs received today: 17!!
Update on my egg... the baby that I couldn't find the beak.... based on the pics and talking to Celtic on phone, we figured it out. I was able to wedge a qtip under his neck and pull head out. Darn thing is still holding on.
After these guys get a brief rest, I will be going back to wrap the yolk up on my wrong end baby per Celtic's directions. Will post pic of that when done.
All 5 opened up... all 5 in various stages of hanging on.
Mo I have had two backwards goslings this year. Both were from my Sebastopols not shipped eggs. It just happens. I chocked it up to both eggs were from a first year goose and the eggs were smaller in size.
